The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-19

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personal aspiratione and personal candidacy
of II man. IApplause and cheers.l You
achieved those great victories in the past by
unity, by discipline and by organization,
when there was scarce a silver lining to the
dark cloud that lowered over your hresides:
when She whole power. of the Federal gov
eminent was exerted, its military arm in.
the white people of Louisiana. When you,
my fellow;citizens, were engaged in that
cause which is
MORE SACRED THAN N CAUSE
in which man has ever been engaged in the
struggle of humanity, when you were try
ing TO hold up in our midst the bright light
of Caucasian civilization; when you stood
shoulder to shoulder, never yielding to the
terrors or to the allurements of the powers
in that cause that armed the hand of child.
hood itself and rebraced the slackened sinews
OF timid, wearied age. TApplause.1
When you, my feliow-citiZens, were united;
showed that indomitable courage, that un-
yielding devotion to the cause which you SO
heroically defended and maintained; you did
it then as q united Democracy. You then
frowned down every effort that was made to
dlsorganize or to disintegrate that party.
IApplause.l And | wish. to appeal to you to
remind you not only of what, elements of
power and Of manhood YOU used in the past
struggles: but IN my Judgment You are con-
fronted with that same peril, that same
& 9ger which confronted you in the past and
it yin be presented to yoe9 in another form.
ing, but l do refer to the
UgLIo uTTERANCEs AND OFFICIAL ACTS
of Nichols during his administration I
have never made an allusion to what he did
in order 20 establish his government. We
were all engaged in that great effort. What
ever we did was actuated by. sense of public
duty, recognizing that We had in 1876 to
wrest our beloved State from tho thralldom
of Radical rule; but. my friends. it was
under the government that was established
that Nichols did two things, which. in my
judgment, he ought not to have done, one as
a Democratic Governor and one as a Demo.
cratic leader. / refer to his course as Chief
Executive during the Tengas troubles. You
must remember that you now have
AwHITE MANS GOVERNMENT
in this State, 30 far az the State government
is concerned; but that SO far as your local
goYernments are concerned you may still
have the heel OF oppression upon your necks;
which are detestable to the pride Of the white
| people of this State. In 1878 our fellow
Democrats in the parish of Iensas did what
they thought they had . right to do; They
did it to protest their fresides: they did it to
protect themselves against Radical domino
ton, and they resorted to extreme measures
If you wil-yon may call it a revolution, If
cu1nstances [ regret that Gov. Nichols, then
a Democratic Governor, did not take the
stand which I believe Sam McEnery would
have taken, and that is to the extent OF his
lCheers and applause He ACTED from pure
and conscientious motives. He believed that
a conservative policy was the best policy that
Louisiana. BE believed that a coneillatory
policy was the wisest policy that he could
pursue as a Democratic Governor OF Loulsl-.
ana. He believed that Northern sentiment
ought to influence the action of a democratic
Governor. I, felloW-citizens, do not believe
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ss2} csooll ha aa sre slsdted S aoRer ms n hs shst y yisa
of the duty of white Democrats IN this State
had been adopted, in my Judgment we would
to-day be writhing under the bIghilng
curse of negro domination. ~CApplause,j 1t
wss because the Democracy OF. North Louis
lana did not accept that view: it was because
the Democracy of North Louisiana grasped
hand. that we enjoy to-day constitutional
liberty. [Yociferous applausel
Isay that that was an Executive act which
is open to Just and fair criticism. l haye
seen no recantation; / have seen no with
drawal of the views and the opinions as ex-
pressed by Gen. Nichols. and l say that l
will not, until he is nominated by a Demo;
cratic convention, give my Endorsement and
my approval to those views.
Again. my. fellow-cit1zens you have
heard something about
THE HUNT BoL
That was q case where a Democratic Conven-
II SNza15naAfITDDuSi HQaa1nHbEEf a. uuG GnQ FF1eG
Democrat for Congress. No one has ever
questioned the regularity OF the proceedings
OF that convention: no one has ever WINS
pered q word of SANDER against the pnble OF
private character OF Col. Louis st. Martin,
who WINS unanimously ~nonllnated by thai
convention. On the contrary, In advance OF
the time when chat convention met, there
; wasa bolt from the Democratic party. Ih
regular Democracy In that district made
fSyery proposition that could be lntee 70 fhose
gentlemen In order to bring theTs back With:
in the rugular Democratic fold. They onsree
, them primary electieus: they. offered then
. an equal number of judges and commission
/ ers oh election; they appealed 70 them net *
disrupt the Denloesatic part. TO stand bl
! the culOrE of taaSDGnoeTatIc DaT5y, an6
! mimi you, this vas in o Presidential cleo
2 ton III November, 1854. and YET Gen
: Nichols went into that district. and made I
! speech iustifying that bolt, and aHklng n hli
IL Ind. never been nominated, and 70 yote
! against Col. st. Martin, who was the unanl
|, nous nominee. IApplalse.]
! Now, my friends, i'll old times II mai
: were to do q thing of that kind he would
| scarcely, tonr years after. run for the nom
: nation of the Democratic Convention TO
{ Governor. Applause, In II oid a1 sln1 ni W s;aes
wher. we believed in party feaissy, 9 naaI
would scarcely have got up before his fellow
citizens anS,told them that he had %J1stlfies
these reform gentlemen land ! intend !
2 aliude to them. in q nInute, IN a yer.
friendly way, though had gone before#h'
! Padsral i ssssss a aosl5s' ee shas f 4 hssdl9 5ndg'
: to issue IN order striking OIL the names OF
: SEVEN TEoUsEND DEMOCRATIC VOTERS
! in that district. Why, Z made q speech il
Z that campaign, / made q speech in that dis
trict, and instead Of advising my felsoE-cltl
: zeiis to vote for Q boiling ticket, I told fhen
. That that application to that Federal Judge g
Z strike off the names of 1000 Democratl
] voters III that district eclipsed IN enoI1nit
{ and infsrny the famous mldnlgas oTder ra 9
f~unntely the judge did not grant that order
H ma dismissed ii, although he Was a kepuh
' lican Judge, from the bench: and les
I tell you THU il that order had bee
I issued the electoral yote OF the state 9
III Touisiana would have been cast for Blain
and Logan. .~fApplause.l Now, some pee
1 pie may call that democracy. ! aon /;
n that movement ever condemn q Doll. ia sn
State Of Louisiana In the Democratic party
I If we are to encourage bolts what would DC
comeof u.s.. Ihaye been wIipped; I nays AZ
avery sore head sometimes: have felt tn
= keen anguish Of political disappolntIlenf
j but what did I dor Did turn, refornlerf
4 No, my fellow-citlzens Waiaea h ~ ~
81 I couldin defense of the principles Of INA
I, party. IApplanse.
I tleInen
oRJEcT ~ BEING CALLED ~REFoRarERs.
3 Ne did not give them that name: they 81
Y proprisfed IL themselves. [Laughfer.l Inc
we're proud AZ III in j a84- 1lSaniles-I ~ fha
increment all their political aoctl1iaents VET
= beaieis ssFyecntiye Committee of the III
3 form Democracy Of the First District {
T0nisiana,u They were proEdo OF that nam
u thesl. and when they went to- Wasnlngeo
saainstGhe Democratic State administratio
!. thew we're proud Of the name OF Reforl
: Democrats. Cheers and aTplaEse;l Mne
!. Fir. Kernochan Was appointed naval once.
Z rhich was she disappointment made bIy ~
e Cleveland, the DISPATCHES went out 20 %
I Papers Of New Orleans representing y as